freightcars

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En route to the front line

from National Library of Scotland

  • John said:
    That is one very overloaded train. So sad that most of these men would never return.

Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Train carrying agricultural machinery arriving at Allora Railway Station

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Allora, a rural town on the Dalrymple Creek, is 20 km north of Warwick and 125 km south-west of Brisbane. The area was part of the Goomburra pastoral run (1841) occupied under licence by Ernest Dalrymple. A shepherds' crossing on Dalrymple Creek became a regular stopping place, and by the mid-1840s a blacksmith's shop was opened there, later carrying stores and expanding to become an inn. A subsequent owner of Goomburra, Patrick Leslie, surrendered one square mile for a township at the crossing. Surveyed in 1859, it was named Allora, believed to be based on an Aboriginal word meaning swampy place. The rich black soil around Allora was ideal for agriculture, and wheat growing led to a steam flour mill opening in 1871. The courthouse was moved to other premises and the building was given to a school of arts in 1873. The Central Downs Agriculture and Horticulture Association had its first show in Allora in 1878. Allora promised to be a leading township on the Downs but was bypassed by the Toowoomba to Warwick railway line (1867). It was not until 1897 that a branch line connected the town to the regional rail network. Although not on the main railway, the Australian handbook nevertheless described a well-appointed township in 1903. Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/allora